Why do you continue to refer to the term “Global Warming” when the NASA and several CREDIBLE scientists have proven the earth has cooled each of at least the last nine years? This is irresponsible journalism at best and outright bias in reporting at worst. Mother Earth worshipers have changed the term to “Climate Change” because they can no longer call it “Global Warming”. But isn’t that just another word for “weather”? Oh, how the politically correct have taken over.

Hi John, you’re right that temperatures this century have not matched 1998, the warmest year since reliable records began in the mid-19th century, according to the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

But temperatures that year were pushed up by an exceptionally strong El Nino event in the Pacific, which tends to heat the globe. The years after the 1998 spike have been less warm — but no trend of cooling year by year — and most are among the warmest 10 on record.

As I understand it from talking to scientists, the underlying problem in fingering global warming is that natural variations in the climate are far, far bigger than the warming effect of extra greenhouse gases. Average temperatures rose about 0.7 Celsius in the 20th century, or an almost unnoticeable average of 0.07 Celsius a decade — everyone knows that normal swings in the weather bring far bigger variations.